I am seeing all these glowing reviews and I will eat my shorts if these are legitimate; more likely from people who worked on the movie. This movie was just too smug for my tastes. The story is a retread of the professional ladder-climbing ingenue a la THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA by the same screenwriter, but set in a TV programming studio instead. I loved TDWP - so I am not a hater of this type of film. But this time around, we are assaulted with so much overacting, Rip Taylor looks like the subtlest of Shakespearean actors in comparison. The gestures are histrionic throughout - a scene doesn't go by where limbs aren't flailed, eyes aren't widened, and bodies and faces aren't contorted. Every actor has "ACTOR" oozing from his character's pores. One exception is Harrison Ford, who gives the most dead-eyed, uncharismatic performance I think I have ever seen. If I laughed at all, it was during the supposedly "heartbreaking" moments. Go ahead and throw your bricks at me - but I know some of you out there prefer a movie with a less heavy hand.
Review of Morning Glory
